Archaeology Fundamentals Trivia Quiz
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This careful process of removing soil layer by layer allows archaeologists to uncover artifacts without damaging them or losing contextual information.
Difficulty: Easy- Excavation
- Prospection
- Demolition
- Mining
This method of dating archaeological sites uses the known pattern of annual growth rings in trees to establish precise calendar dates.
Difficulty: Medium- Palynology
- Seriation
- Typology
- Dendrochronology
This formal model predicts that foragers should leave a resource patch when the marginal return rate drops to the average for the environment.
Difficulty: Hard- Diet breadth model
- Central place model
- Marginal value theorem
- Ideal free distribution
Any object made, modified, or used by humans that archaeologists recover from a site falls under this general term.
Difficulty: Easy- Fossil
- Artifact
- Mineral
- Specimen
This ethical principle requires archaeologists to consult with and respect the wishes of communities whose ancestors' sites and remains they study.
Difficulty: Medium- Descendant community engagement
- Academic privilege
- Excavation rights
- Research priority
This statistical technique clusters sites or assemblages based on multiple variables to identify meaningful groupings for archaeological interpretation.
Difficulty: Hard- Principal components analysis
- Cluster analysis
- Regression analysis
- Discriminant function analysis
This location where archaeological materials are found, whether a single spot or a large area, serves as the fundamental unit of archaeological investigation.
Difficulty: Easy- Laboratory
- Museum
- Site
- Archive
This field studies how materials become part of the archaeological record and how they change after deposition, affecting what archaeologists find.
Difficulty: Medium- Stratigraphy
- Typology
- Seriation
- Taphonomy
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